Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Faulty Grocery Store Scales Leave New Yorkers Paying the Price
This story was produced in conjunction with the NYCity News Service and with the support of the Equity Through Data Project at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Every time you grab a salad, fruit or steak from a New York City grocery or supermarket, you’re putting your trust in a scale. […]
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LISTEN: The Resurrection of a Brooklyn Icon
An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby’s, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the new stewards of Gage and Tollner, joins Lit NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about the craft of the cocktail, the business of Brooklyn, the nature of the great good […]
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From Covid Patient to Hospital CEO: Meet NYC’s New Deputy Mayor for Health
This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. The new deputy mayor overseeing the New York City health department and related agencies is a veteran health professional and hospital executive with strong community ties and very much a product of Queens, where she and her family immigrated […]
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LISTEN: ‘It Is Right To Hope? We’re Going To Show Them That It Is.’
Way back in March of 2025, when Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani was at 1% in the Democratic primary polls, he promised THE CITY’s FAQ NYC his very first sit-down interview as mayor. On Thursday afternoon, Mayor Mamdani made good on that promise joining, talking with hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel in City Hall’s Blue Room […]
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Hochul Pledges Free Child Care at Age 2, Bolstering Mamdani
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced an effort to expand child care across the state, including a free program for 2-year-olds in New York City starting in the fall. “The cost of child care is too damn high,” Hochul said at an event at a YMCA in Flatbush, Brooklyn. “We know this is a determinative […]
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